Driver of car that crashed, killing four in a fiery blaze, has admitted dangerous driving.

A truck has landed on its side after a four-vehicle crash on Auckland's Southern Motorway.

Police warn motorists of icy roads across Otago this morning.

The road has surface flooding after heavy storms hit Auckland this evening.

Police stopped a dobbed-in driver but he took off and crashed, killing two.

A woman had to be cut from her car in Kumeu this afternoon after it collided with a truck.

Stephen John Hayden and Nigel Stuart Freeman were killed in the two-car collision.

Unconsented gas work may have caused the explosion.

Emergency services are at a serious truck crash east of Maungatapere in Northland.

Motorcyclist dies after crashing into a pole in St Albans, Christchurch.

Sione Palei "Bah'' Tuiano, 24, died in a crash in the Hutt Valley yesterday.

A truck has become stuck under a rail overbridge on SH1 near Marton.

The vehicle crashed around 9.30pm on Puhinui Rd in Papatoetoe.

Two people have died in two separate crashes in the Far North and Hutt Valley.

Seven Kiwis have died in workplace deaths in the past three weeks.

The driver and passengers were fine but the cow was not so lucky.

A central Dunedin street has been closed after several ice-related crashes.

Police seek sightings of SUV and ute in connection with Rick Hayward's disappearance.

Mum of killed teen: "One second of distraction is all it took."

Dunedin man Murray Barrington, 73, was a member of the Otago Aero Club.

Multi-storey craft packed with 170 passengers for Colombian holiday weekend capsizes.

A car slid on an icy road and plunged into Otago Harbour this morning.

The survivor of yesterday's Otago plane crash is 'recovering well'.

A motorist who woke to find himself impaled on a fence post tried not to "freak out".

Families of French engineering students who died in a fiery crash have arrived in NZ.

He lost his legs in an accident doctors said would kill him. Here is his incredible life.

Person trapped after crash in Whatawhata.

Two people died in separate crashes on North Island roads today.

Power outages across Glenbrook after car hits power pole.

Police speaking to 'person of interest' after mother taking son to karate struck by car.